When parents first notice their kids have a pinworm infection, they usually flip. "It freaks parents out," says Dr. Kristin Bencik-Boudreau, a pediatrician at Bayshore Pediatrics, a primary care ...

Drugs that have been on the market for decades are being investigated for new uses. One is a medication used around the world to treat pinworm... A Pinworm Medication Is Being Tested As A Potential ...

Children share all kinds of things when they go back to school – books, pencils, stories from summer vacation and, unfortunately, pesky and sometimes dangerous parasites that rely on close contact ...

Pinworm infection remains prévalent in children in many parts of the world. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of this infection in schoolchildren in Taiwan after the termination of ...

When children just cannot sit still, they could be suffering from a pinworm infection. Dr. Najwa El Dahdah said the thin white worms are about a quarter to a half-inch long and oftenare not visible to ...

The Jeonbuk Institute of Health and Environment announced on the 9th that it will conduct pinworm infection tests to protect the health of infants and young children in the province and to prevent ...

About pinworms, they are nothing to get overly worried about. This is because they’re surprisingly common and easy to treat too. When Simi awoke a second time complaining that “her whole private area ...

Cancer researchers are testing whether a generic drug that has been used for more than 40 years to treat parasitic infections may also help fight cancer. The tests of mebendazole are part of a growing ...

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